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[-] pyre@lemmy.world 118 points 2 months ago

"no real kids"

"no real bills"

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the fact that he added "real" to both means she has them but he somehow doesn't consider them real, whatever the fuck that means. but this sounds like a total piece of shit and i feel sorry for the 24 year old.

nothing like ruining the economy and the future for the next generation and then refusing to help.

[-] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago

I think everyone is misunderstanding the "kids" part.

The daughter is a teacher, meaning she has "kids" (i.e. in her classroom), but not "real kids", as in, kids of her own. A strange way of saying it, but I'm sure that's what she meant.

The no real bills part... that could mean anything. If she's living with her folks and doesn't have to pay rent, utilities, etc., then I can understand how a request like that could be taken poorly by the mother.

Still, posting it on social media is Karen-like behaviour.

[-] undergroundoverground@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

"Can you describe the nature of the unrealness of these bills, as its own thing and not as the absence of something else?"

Just thought the dissection of that particular "weasel word" might help someone out there at some point.

"Brandy made in Germany isn't "real" cognac. The nature of the unrealness is that it was made in Germany and not the cognac region of France."

You may disagree but my point here is, right or wrong, you can always describe the nature of the unrealness, unless its being used as a cheap, underhanded rhetorical device.

[-] Ostrakon@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

I'm guessing the kids comment was about pets. 'No real bills' I'm guessing she still lives at home and pays some token amount towards rent/utilities.

We can speculate all we like, but I could see this going either way, and I'd be frustrated if my 24 year old couldn't support themselves too.

[-] Eiri@lemmy.ca 23 points 2 months ago

I mean she's a teacher. A very hard job with lots of unpaid work that often offers downright sad wages.

Being unable to support oneself despite a full-time job is a more and more common thing in our world.

[-] DillyDaily@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

My cousin is a coparent in a polycule of 3, but she is not the biological parent of their children, she is the default parent though, as she is a SAHM and the other parents work. They've been together for 23 years.

Half my family acts like she doesn't have any children, and that she's some sad single live in nanny. They will ask her how her "room mates and their kids" are going, even if the "room mate" is standing next to her with his hand on her arse and has just finished telling a story about how in love they are.

My dad is also thinks I have "no real bills" because I don't have a mortgage. He says rent isn't a real bill because it's not like the bank will take my house if I don't pay. History opinion on evictions is "that not the same, because you can get a new place to rent that night, you can't buy a new house in a day"

My rent is 6x more than his mortgage and I don't know anyone who could get approved for a rental the same day they get evicted for not paying rent, but sure dad, I'm rolling in expendable income over here.

Some families are weird about denying how their relatives live.

But it could also be that she calls her cat "her baby" and lives at home with only personal bills.

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

i feel like if he's frustrated about his kid and she only has pets he'd just say no kids. but people are weird with animals so who knows.

[-] fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago

I'd expect 'no real bills' to include rent for their own apartment (because the parent doesn't get how much it costs nowadays), but no car bills for example.

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